Overview: International Cooperation at a Crossroads: Aid, Trade and Security in an Unequal World
Author(s)
United Nations Development Programme
Abstract
This Report is about the scale of the challenge facing the world at the start of the 10-year countdown to 2015. Its focus is on what governments in rich countries can do to keep their side of the global partnership bargain. We focus on three pillars of cooperation, each in urgent need of renovation. The first pillar is development assistance. International aid is a key investment in human development. The second pillar is international trade. Under the right conditions trade can be a powerful catalyst for human development. The third pillar is security. Violent conflict blights the lives of hundreds of millions of people. It is a source of systematic violations of human rights and a barrier to progress towards the MDGs.
